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Congress leader Shashi Tharoor not agreeing to a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) probe into the Pegasus spyware scandal has come as a rude shock. According to him the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Information Technology headed by him will “do its duty” and the subject is “already on the mandate of my committee”.

It seems nothing can stand between Indians and their love of gold, not even the Covid pandemic, which has turned life upside down. It is as though they were waiting for the Covid restrictions to ease before hopped back to their favourite gold and jewellery shops.

There are three possible scenarios, but in each, India needs to boost oxygen supplies and focus on vulnerable geographies.

New Delhi: "They are a team we need to be careful of" said captain Manpreet Singh as India takes on New Zealand in their opening Pool "A" Olympic hockey fixture on Saturday.

New Delhi: Four Indians — Apurvi Chandela and Elavenil Valarivan in Women’s 10M Air Rifle followed by will launch Saurabh Chaudhary and Abhishek Verma follow in Men’s 10M Air Pistol events- will launch country's shooting campaign at Tokyo Olympics on Saturday.

At the launch of his six volume collected works, Dr Manmohan Singh remembered his days as finance minister. He had observed, he was not only an “accidental prime minister”, as some people had written, but he was “an accidental finance minister as well.”

On the eve of independence of our country, on August 14, 1947, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru spoke in the Constituent Assembly that India has a tryst with destiny. Similarly, AIBEA made a tryst with destiny on the April 20, 1946 when AIBEA was founded.

On July 19, 1969, 14 major banks were nationalised in the country. Today, after 52 years there is some talk again of privatising the nationalized banks, which naturally raises the question: why were banks nationalized at all? The answer to this question is usually given in terms of the specific advantages of bank nationalisation; this is correct and appropriate, but what needs also to be kept in mind is the overall perspective underlying bank nationalisation. This is important because the issue of privatisation of banks today cannot be discussed without reference to this perspective.

Remember Arvind Subramanian? He was Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s chief economic advisor. Then he quit. Nowadays, he’s with Brown University, US. He also has links with think-tank ‘Center for Global Development (CDG)’, which in a study claims that India’s Covid death count till June 2021 was 49 lakhs, while the Modi Government’s official death count stood at 4 lakh.

Farmers assembled at Jantar Mantar, staged protest, and organized their own parliament ‘Kisan Sansad’ on July 22, not far from the Parliament of India, which is in session. While the farmers’ parliament debated the APMC Act in two session, punctuated by a ‘langar’ on the first day, the Parliament of India complex and both the Houses – the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha – resonated with their demand, which was one of the reasons for adjournment of the Houses for the day. While the opposition were demanding ‘justice for farmers’, a Union minister from the ruling BJP was calling the farmers ‘hooligans’ in a press conference, the comment she had to withdraw, but only after sharp reaction from as far as Punjab, where Chief Minister of the State demanded her “immediate resignation” over it.